Magellan

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Magellan, Ferdinand 1480?-1521. Portuguese navigator. While trying to find a western route to the Moluccas (1519), Magellan and his expedition were blown by storms into the strait that now bears his name (1520). He named and sailed across the Pacific Ocean, reaching the Marianas and the Philippines (1521), where he was killed fighting for a friendly native king. One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.

Strait ofMagellan A channel separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands south of the continent and connecting the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the strait in October and November 1520.

He decides to check up on the source - an anonymous Iraqi insider named "Magellan" - on his own, and stirs up a hornet's nest of bureaucratic double-dealings, with Pentagon suit Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) and CIA firebrand Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson) jockeying for his loyalty.

Dr. Cohen said the patients evaluated in the new study, called Magellan, were "entirely different" from patients in other studies and he didn't think the bleeding issue in Magellan "has any implications at all" for potential use of the drug in other indications.

In the fall of 1991 the president of Johns Hopkins University, Bill Richardson, notified the Hopkins astronomers that the university would no longer participate in building a giant 8.5-meter telescope called Magellan.

Those moves have contributed to a rough year overall for Magellan, which is down 30.6% in 2008, outpacing declines in its peer group and in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, according to Morningstar. com.